When the World Bank officially reclassified Tanzania from a low-income country to a lower-middle-income economy on July 1, 2020, few may have reflected on how far the country had travelled since 2000, when GDP per capita stood at just $306.
It was during that period that Tanzania Development Vision 2025 was conceived, with the aim of transforming the country into a middle-income nation with a semi-industrialised economy by 2025.